Professor Astier M. Almedom (PI) and Professor George A. Bonanno (PI) have been awarded a Rockefeller Foundation grant to develop methods and tools for measuring community resilience to extreme events. This research...
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Program News|January 29, 2013
- Programs : International Resilience Program
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Program News|September 21, 2012
As part of the EPIIC “Conflict in the 21st Century” symposium in February 2012, EPIIC for the first time dedicated one of its breakout sessions to gathering experts and students in thinking about the following year's theme on global health and security. One of the leaders of the session was Ezra Barzilay, an alumnus of both Tufts undergraduate and medical schools and a Commander in the US Public Health Service as...
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Program News|September 21, 2012Myanmar sits at a crossroads, between the oppression of the last decades and the recent promise of an opening society; between its isolation and the possibility of rejoining the international community; and between the rising geographical powers of China and India. After decades under severe authoritarian military rule, virtually closed off to the outside world, Myanmar is just starting to see an influx of international visitors and...
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Program News|September 21, 2012“We are all BUILD,” mused Janani Duraisamy, reflecting upon her position as Learning Center administrator for the past year.
Janani is a student and resident of the village of Thottiyapatti, a bustling hamlet of about 300 people located approximately three kilometers from the larger village of Thenur in rural Perambular, Tamil Nadu, India.
For the past two years, the IGL’s BUILD: India program has been working with the NGO...
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Program News|February 9, 2012- Programs : Alumni Program
Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012: ‘Zahra’s Paradise’ is the new graphic novel by an Iranian-American author. He tells host Marco Werman how he created a webstrip based on the images streaming out of the Iranian protests in 2009. Listen to the full story at Soundcloud.com.
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Program News|June 22, 2011EXP 91F
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3:00-5:30pm, Barnum 008
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Program News|May 16, 2011
- Programs : International Resilience Program
Jacqueline Kingfield has won a Boren Fellowship for a year in India where she will be studying Urdu as part of completing her MALD degree at the Fletcher School.
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Program News|April 28, 2011
- Programs : International Resilience Program
Graduating senior Tiffany Castillo has won the Thomas F. Black Jr Memorial Scholarship of the Rhode Island Bar Foundation. Tiffany will be attending Boston College Law School in the Fall.
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Program News|April 28, 2011
- Programs : International Resilience Program
Graduating senior Chloé Rousseau was awarded the Donald A. Cowdery Memorial Scholarship on April 15th. Chloé will be pursuing her master's in public health studies at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in the Fall.
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Program News|March 25, 2011
- Programs : International Resilience Program
Professor Almedom and her colleagues/students at the Fltecher School answer informal questions on the study of resilience and the details of publishing in the Resilience journal.
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IGL News|September 21, 2012- Programs : Empower Program for Social Entrepreneurship
Led by Adam White (E’09, EPIIC’08 & ’09)
Social Enterprise that Doesn’t Deliver
The Social Enterprise field is growing rapidly. More startups are being launched, more people, young and old, are becoming social entrepreneurs, more money is coming from impact investors and social enterprise accelerators. A large number of these social enterprises work to create change for the poorest people... -
IGL News|December 7, 2010- Programs : Empower Program for Social Entrepreneurship
IGL Empower fellows Rachel Brown (Tufts 2010) and Cody Valdes (Tufts 2012) spent the summer launching Sisi ni Amani [We are Peace], a project to map and connect peace initiatives in Kenya. Brown and Valdes are co-founders of Sisi ni Amani, and will be staying on in Kenya to run the project for one to two years, at which point it will be handed over to local staff. During their summer months in Kenya, Rachel and Cody have made great strides on...
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IGL News|April 28, 2009
- Programs : Empower Program for Social Entrepreneurship
NEXUS | The IGL Newsletter | Spring 2009
By Piyali Kundu, A’10
The Empower Program for Social Entrepreneurship of the Institute for Global Leadership was launched last year and has significantly developed its program offerings this academic year.
This April, we selected an outstanding group of students to support in...
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Program News|November 13, 2008
- Programs : Empower Program for Social Entrepreneurship
MICROLOAN FOUNDATION USA INFORMATION SESSION
Conducted by David Rice,
Founder and Principal, Strategic Policy ConceptsThursday, November 13; 10:00-11:00 am
Mugar 231Learn more about MicroLoan foundation USA and related internships and research opportunities.
Coffee and refreshments will be served.
The Fletcher School | Microfinance and Development Venture Capital Club
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IGL News|July 1, 2008- Programs : Empower Program for Social Entrepreneurship
Photograph: Sherman Teichman with Former President William Jefferson Clinton in September 2007
This year, through IGL External Advisory Board Member Tim Phillips, the IGL was nominated to attend the 2007 Clinton Global Initiative, hosted by President Bill Clinton and his foundation.
According to its web site, President Clinton launched the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) in 2005 as a non-partisan catalyst for action, bringing...
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Program News|July 1, 2008- Programs : Empower Program for Social Entrepreneurship
Photograph: Children from Balan, Haiti, Sabina Carlson
This year, Tufts University alumni, Angelos Metaxa (A’91) and Javier Macaya (A’91), now both IGL External Advisory Board Members, joined forces to found EMPOWER at Tufts University’s Institute for Global Leadership to establish a learning and practical experience platform to engage Tufts students in social entrepreneurship aimed at poverty alleviation.
They said, "Our...